{"id":14767,"date":"2003-06-26T14:59:00","date_gmt":"2003-06-26T14:59:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/2003\/06\/26\/william-gibson-on-george-orwell\/"},"modified":"2003-06-26T14:59:00","modified_gmt":"2003-06-26T14:59:00","slug":"william-gibson-on-george-orwell","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/2003\/06\/26\/william-gibson-on-george-orwell\/","title":{"rendered":"William Gibson on George Orwell"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.k-1.com\/Orwell\/\" target=\"_blank\">George Orwell<\/a>&rsquo;s 100th birthday would have been yesterday.  <a href=\"http:\/\/www.williamgibsonbooks.com\/blog\/blog.asp\" target=\"_blank\">William Gibson<\/a> has written an <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2003\/06\/25\/opinion\/25GIBS.html?pagewanted=all&amp;position=\" target=\"_blank\">excellent article in <i>The New York Times<\/i><\/a> entitled &ldquo;The Road to Oceania&rdquo; that ponders Orwell&rsquo;s legacy with respect to present efforts resulting in &ldquo;loss of traditional privacies,&rdquo; &ldquo;increasingly transparent fields of data,&rdquo; and &ldquo;Total (now Terrorist) Information Awareness.&rdquo;  I can&rsquo;t do it justice; go and read it&hellip;<\/p>\n<div class=\"blogger-post-footer\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" src=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/tracker\/3501955-105663955949351302?l=www.driko.org%2Findex_blogger.html\" alt=\"\" \/><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>George Orwell&rsquo;s 100th birthday would have been yesterday. William Gibson has written an excellent article in The New York Times entitled &ldquo;The Road to Oceania&rdquo; that ponders Orwell&rsquo;s legacy with respect to present efforts resulting in &ldquo;loss of traditional privacies,&rdquo; &ldquo;increasingly transparent fields of data,&rdquo; and &ldquo;Total (now Terrorist) Information Awareness.&rdquo; I can&rsquo;t do it &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/2003\/06\/26\/william-gibson-on-george-orwell\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;William Gibson on George Orwell&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[118],"class_list":["post-14767","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-imported"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14767","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14767"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14767\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14767"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14767"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14767"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}